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MEDLEY: PICK A BALE OF COTTON /
ON TOP OF OLD SMOKEY / THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (Abba)
Time signature: Cut Common (ie feels 2/4 but written 4/4)
E (whole song is E)
Gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale of cotton
Gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale a day
Gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale of cotton
Gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale a day
Oh, Lordy
Pick a bale of cotton
Oh, Lordy
Pick a bale a day
Oh, Lordy
Pick a bale of cotton
Oh, Lordy
Pick a bale a day
I said me and my buddy gonna pick a bale of cotton
Now me and my buddy gonna pick a bale a day
I said me and my buddy gonna pick a bale of cotton
Now me and my buddy gonna pick a bale a day
Oh, Lordy
Pick a bale of cotton
Oh, Lordy
Pick a bale a day
Oh, Lordy
Pick a bale of cotton
Oh, Lordy
Pick a bale a day
Turnaround: 6 bars of E then
|E |D |AD|A N.C.|
Time Signature now 6/8
(A) D
On top of Old Smokey
A
All covered with snow
A7E
I lost my true lover
AA7
By courting so slow
D
For courting's a pleasure
A
And parting is grief
E
And a false-hearted lover
AA7
Is worse than a thief
D
On top of old Smokey
A
All covered with snow
A7E
I lost my true lover
A
By courting so slow
Back to 4/4
Turnaround: 4 bars N.C.
however you can play a G
Verse 1:
(G) C
Well, you wake up in the morning
G
Hear the ding dong ring
D
You go marching to the table
G
See the same old thing
C
See the fork on the table
G
Nothing in your pan
D
If you say a thing about it
G
You're in trouble with the man
CHORUS:
G7C
Let the midnight special
G
Shine a light on me
D
Let the midnight special
G
Shine its everlovin' light on me
Verse 2:
G7C
If you ever go to Houston
G
Well you'd better act right
D
And you'd better not gamble
G
And you'd better not fight
C
For the sheriff will arrest you
G
And he'll take you down
D
And before you understand it
G
You are prison bound
CHORUS:
G7C
Let the midnight special
G
Shine a light on me
D
Let the midnight special
G
Shine its everlovin' light on me (on me, on me)
[Play CHORUS two more times, then fade fourth time around.]
[Live: can just end on the final G Chord, or do a cadence]
:Charted by Bustopher the Busker - bustopher@bigpond.com